2150 A.D.

Jon Lake is a Vietnam veteran with a wound that never quite healed and a doctoral program in psychology to finish. In 1976 his world is fractured, and he is carrying more anger and guilt than he admits. Then he starts slipping through time, in vivid translations that carry him into the year 2150.

The society he finds there has rebuilt itself around what it calls Macro awareness: a lived sense that all people are one, that each person is responsible for their own choices, and that reality is something we create consciously. Disease, crime, war and environmental ruin have given way to cooperation and spiritual maturity. Psychic abilities are common, but they are tied to ethical development rather than handed out as a prize.

As Jon moves back and forth between the two eras, the future becomes a mirror. He meets enlightened teachers, soul mates and people who are as flawed as he is, and each one pushes him to look at his need for control. He learns that growth does not come from power or from running away. It comes from love, accountability and the nerve to face his own shadow. The question underneath his journey is whether one person can truly change, and whether humanity can evolve without wrecking itself first.

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